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New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival

NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival put on by The New Festival, Inc., is one of the most comprehensive forums of national and international LGBT film/video in the world.

Founded in 1988, The New Festival, Inc is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to showcasing the newest and best LGBT media for the greater New York metropolitan area.

As a partner in the first national LGBTQ media arts organization, NewFest hopes to expand its goals all over the country. NewFest strives to encourage and foster environments for LGBTQ and allied filmmakers and viewers to represent the diversity and complexity of voices in the LGBTQ community, and to amplify those voices across the nation.

List of Events

The largest and most popular program from the New Festival is the week long NewFest LGBT film festival. Additionally, year-round events include: NewFest@BAM an annual "Best of NewFest" showcase at the landmark Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas; NewDraft, a screenplay reading and competition; and the Logo Lounge, which provides a space for viewers, producers, screenplays, and filmmakers can mingle and network during the film festival.

NewFest has partnered with the LGBT Center in NYC to screen films on a monthly basis at the Center. Screenings to include discussions with the filmmakers.

In 2020, the festival was one of the key partners, alongside Outfest Los Angeles, the Frameline Film Festival and the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, in the North American Queer Festival Alliance, an initiative to further publicize and promote LGBT film.

Grand Jury Award Winners

2020: Cowboys, Welcome to the USA, and Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story
2019: Tremors and Queen of Lapa
2018: Jules of Light and Dark, Retablo, and Sidney & Friends
2017: The Feels, The City of the Future, and Alabama Bound
2011: Circumstance and Gone
2010: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
2009: Light Gradient and Prodigal Sons
2008: The Lost Coast, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, and Be Like Others
2007: Times Have Been Better and Saving Marriage
2006: The Gymnast, Go West, and Camp Out
2005: A Year Without Love and Little Man
2004: You I Love and Garden
2003: Between Two Women, I Exist, and The Gift
2002: The Ignorant Fairies and Out in the Cold
2001: O Fantasma and Bombay Eunuch
2000: Water Drops on Burning Rocks and Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay & Lesbian Parents
1997: Chocolate Babies and You Don't Know Dick: Courageous Hearts of Transsexual Men